A truly wiggy instrumental group (go to allmusic.com and check out some of their song titles sometime, just for giggles), they brought in a fairly obscure but McCann-like vocalist in flamboyant ex-Sister Double Happiness frontman Gary Floyd to handle the incendiary lyrics. Meanwhile, Harris’ part is filled in by Beck sideman Jon Birdsong’s cornet with Carroll Ashby’s trombone adding a second soloist. Mushroom adds a few far out electronic effects to the proceedings, but the psychedelic sounds actually fit the of-its-time lyrics. And the groove is just about the same as the original, except that band leader Pat Thomas' drums are blissfully higher up in the mix.
The only thing it lacks is that electricity of performing it live. But hey, it’s not a bad rendition at all. If there's any band out there today who can capture the trippy essence of the late sixties, it's Mushroom.
Listen: Mushroom - "Compared To What"
"One Track Mind" is a more-or-less weekly drool over a single song selected on a whim and a short thesis on why you should be drooling over it, too.
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1 - gatey
Flack had the origial